Elena Rutledge

Friday

Funeral services for Elena Rutledge, 76, of Levelland will be 4 p.m. Saturday, March 27, 2010 at First Baptist Church, Levelland with Dr. Brian Hill, Minister of Education, officiating.

Burial will be in City of Levelland Cemetery under direction of George Price Funeral Home, Levelland.

She died Monday, March 22, 2010 in Levelland. The family will receive visitors at the funeral home 5 until 7 p.m. Friday, March 26, 2010.

Elena was born on July 1, 1933 in Whitharral, Texas to Hollis and Bessie Crow Trammell. She attended Ron High School near Hollis, Oklahoma and South Plains College, Levelland. She married Tommy Rutledge on Feb. 17, 1950 in Altus, Oklahoma and he preceded her in death on Oct. 6, 2009 and they moved to Levelland in 1957 from Sayre, Oklahoma. They co-owned TRICO Machine in Levelland until 1994.

Survivors include two daughters, Vicki Rutledge Helton of Lubbock and Kandy Price of Bedford; a son, Todd Rutledge of Whitharral; a sister, Jean Carrick of Hollis, Oklahoma; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.